Named Entity Results, Aiken's Landing (Virginia, United States)

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a few moments I had packed up some of my belongings—as much as I could carry in a dress suit case, and joined my departing comrades.
We were taken by rail to Baltimore, and from thence by steamer down the Chesapeake Bay and up the James to Aiken's Landing, which place we reached on the 3rd of March.
There was no incident on the way worthy of note.
I recall, however, the deep emotion with which I greeted once again the shores and waters of dear Virginia.
It brought back to me the impassioneto embrace in fond devotion the familiar shores of my native county.
Ah! how we love our native land-its soil, its rivers, its fields, its forests!
This love is God-implanted, and is, or should be, the rock-basis of all civic virtue.
At Aiken's Landing we were transferred to our Confederate steamer.
Once again under our own flag, I wrote on the Confederate steamer and sent it back by the Federal steamer to my home city to gladden the hearts of my friends there.
We landed at Rocketts, R